This looks good. Once you've got the survey up, beside announcing it on the
obvious ruby and rails MLs, I can post an announcement article to the
O'Reilly Ruby blog.
Curt
On 10/23/07, Luis Lavena <luislavena at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello fellow Developers!
>> (I guess we aren't so many anyway) ;-)
>> Excluding the debate on which compiler OCI should be based, I found
> that we need to "bootstrap" the whole process _in_ ruby and avoid the
> manual compile/patch task.
>> Since the tool of choice for this is Rake, I was looking and playing
> with Exerb [1], but the lack of documentation of that project (and the
> manual compilation step) make me hold for a second (until I have much
> time to play with it).
>> The idea is build a "rake executable" that could be downloaded and
> used to build ruby, extensions and the whole compile environment
> without requiring a previous Ruby installed.
>> So far, the debate still remains: VC8 or MinGW.
>> Even after the success of Roger getting Ruby and Rails running on
> Ruby-MinGW, the uncertain support of x64 for that project (MinGW)
> still remains as an important point and shouldn't be ignored.
> Comment: even that Ruby doesn't care about it right now.
>> Anyway, getting back to the questions, we need to collect the average
> user profile of Ruby on Windows (a), and of course, evaluate other
> users (like the ones on OSX and Linux) that are interested in support
> the platform (or being supportive) (b).
>> For the (a) option, I'll like to start asking about:
>> - For what kind of task do you use Ruby? (checkbox)
> [ ] Learning
> [ ] Automating Tasks
> [ ] Desktop Applications
> [ ] Web Applications (Rails, Merb, Nitro, IOWA, other frameworks)
>> - What is your primary OS?
> ( ) Linux or *nix derivatives (FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.)
> ( ) Mac OSX
> ( ) Windows
> ( ) Other: ____
>> - Which of the following architectures is compiled or support your OS?
> ... provide instructions for the average user gather the correct
> information (uname, system properties, etc. ...
> ( ) x86 (i386, i686) compatible
> ( ) AMD64/x64
> ( ) Other: ____
>> - In your common use of Ruby, do you use:
> [ ] RubyGems?
> [ ] Database adapters (mysql, sqlite3, postgres)?
> [ ] WEBrick
> [ ] Rails
> [ ] Mongrel?
>> - How often you update your development tool set?
> ... compiler, ruby interpreter, gems, libraries ...
> ( ) Once a month
> ( ) Every 6 months
> ( ) At least 1 time every year
> ( ) I just use it "as-is"
>> - Are you familiar with Version Control Software? (Subversion, CVS, or
> distributed ones)
> ( ) Yes, use it for every project.
> ( ) Rarely
> ( ) No
>> - As Ruby User/Developer, do you create Open Source Software (OSS)
> ( ) Yes
> ( ) No, just as end-user
> ( ) No, closed for the company I work for
>> - Do you deploy your software to specialized servers?
> ... Internet hostings providers or locally inside your company ...
> ( ) Yes, manually by copy methods
> ( ) Yes, using automation tools like Capistrano
> ( ) Yes, using custom made Installer / Packages
> ( ) No
>> - Are you interest to deploy your software in server with different
> OS/Architecture?
> ( ) Yes
> ( ) No
>> - As Ruby Developer, what kind of software you create?
> [ ] Gems
> [ ] Ruby C Extensions
> [ ] Rails plugins
> [ ] Mongrel Handlers (GemPlugins)
> [ ] Plain, old-vanilla applications
>> - If you checked one of the options in the previous question, are you
> interested in cross-platform compatibility?
> ( ) Yes
> ( ) No, the software is platform-specific.
> ( ) No, I really don't care other platforms.
>> - On which platform are you most interested your software run smoothly?
> [ ] *nix (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris)
> [ ] Mac OSX
> [ ] Windows
> [ ] Other: _____
>> - To which compiler are you most familiar?
> [ ] GCC
> [ ] Visual C++
> [ ] Intel
>> ===
>> Ok, So far, all these are the question. I left out a few regarding
> Zlib and OpenSSL, which must be rephrased.
>> What do you think?
>> Suggestions are welcome!
>> Good nights.
>> [1] http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html>> --
> Luis Lavena
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> Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort,
> which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that
> is worthwhile.
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